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Aster
Symphyotrichum novi-belgii
A late-season daisy of meadows and gardens whose violet starbursts feed migrating butterflies long after most flowers have faded.
Looking for 5-letter flowers? Here are 9 flowers that fit — each linked to a full profile.
Letters are counted across the whole name with spaces, hyphens, apostrophes, and diacritics excluded. "Apple Pie" is 8 letters; "Boeuf Bourguignon" is 16.
List of 5-letter Flowers
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Daisy
Bellis perennis
A small white-and-yellow lawn perennial whose simple flower is the popular archetype for what a flower looks like.
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Lilac
Syringa vulgaris
A deciduous shrub of the Balkans whose pyramidal trusses of small fragrant purple flowers define the scent of late spring in temperate gardens.
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Lotus
Nelumbo nucifera
An ancient aquatic flower of Asia whose pristine pink blooms rise on long stems above muddy ponds and have anchored religious symbolism for millennia.
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Lupin
Lupinus polyphyllus
A spire of pea-shaped flowers in vivid bands of colour, born from a tough nitrogen-fixing perennial that thrives on poor soils.
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Pansy
Viola × wittrockiana
A short-lived hybrid garden flower whose expressive "face" of five overlapping petals has made it the cool-season bedding plant of the modern world.
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Peony
Paeonia lactiflora
A long-lived perennial whose massive, fragrant late-spring flowers are the national flower of China and a fixture of cottage gardens.
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Poppy
Papaver rhoeas
A crinkled silken-petaled annual of disturbed soils, whose blood-red bloom became Europe's central memorial flower after the First World War.
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Tulip
Tulipa gesneriana
A spring-flowering bulb of the central Asian steppes whose introduction to seventeenth-century Holland triggered the first speculative bubble in modern finance.
About 5-letter flowers
That's our current list of flowers with exactly 5 letters. Need a different length? Try the browse-by-length pills in the sidebar, or combine with a starting letter — for example, 5-letter flowers that start with A.